Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-29
TWO IRISHMEN'S TALK.

john Dillon, NJ. P. tells one Of the New
York Tribune's London men that sine
New Years 5,1S0 men. women and child
rem have been turned out of their littl
homes in Ireland by eviction, 766 il
Kerry alone. The government land bill il
condemned by landlords and tenants alike
He says: 1t Is "a monstrous imposture
More of the younger men and women arc
emigrating this spring than ever before; as
many as 1000 have saileG from Queens
town In single week, and all the Atlantic
lines have had to put on extra boats. The
feeling against the policy of the present
tory government pervades all classes in Ire
land Except the landlord Glass; and is as
intense as it is universal. In Kerry eigh,
constables have resigned from the force
rather than take part in any more evictions
and have taken passage to New
York. Yet Notwithstanding the recent in
crease in the number Of evictions, there has
been no increase in crimes or violence-"a
fact unparalleled in Irish agrarian history,
Mr. Dillon says Since New Years only
two assaults on bsiliffs have been reported.
Thus" comments Mr.. Parnell's lieuten-
ant, against each bailiff assaulted on our
side of the outrage bill we can set 1900
persons flung out of their homes on theirs. y
With regard to the prospects, he is re-
ported IS talking very hopefully. He
thinks the recent declaration of Lord Hart,
iDgton at Edinburgh that the Parnellites
are revolutionary party and must be put
down, the coarse insults Of Saunderson in
the house Of commons, the publication OF
the forged letter in the London
Times, have done good already and will do
more. He is confident that the popular
feeling is With Mr. Gladstone and against
the coercion BILL Once the people Of
England come TO see that the bill is TO be
used against political opponents and not
against criminals, | am convinced, says
Mr. Dillon, THAT they will declare against
it with vast majority.
Dir. William O'Brien, editor of United
Ireland, tells the New York Suns London
man that he thinks the middle of June
will find the coercion bill an accomplished
fact, but isn't worry ing about it. Either
the government will use the oppressive
powers which the bill gives it, or it will
not If ii doesn't use them it will fall in
TO contempt; if it does, it will arouse a
storm before which it will not he able to
stand. AS TO his projected visit
to Canada, Mr. O'Brien ex-
planned 'iat bis purpose was to
tell the p:"ple Of the Dominion about the
cruelties perpetrated by their governor
general upon his Irish tenonts. and excite
public opinion against him. The accuse
ton that his object in going was to excite
riots and to bring about the assassination of
the governor general was too absurd, he
said, to deserve any serious notice: 1.-THE
thing for Ireland's enemies but not for
Ireland"
The expedition to Canada here referred
TO has been postponed, if it is not definitely
''off." Lord Lansdowne has offered new
terms to all the tenants on his Irish estates
including those already evicted-and the
tenants have taken them into consideration.
The news reached Mr. O'Brien in season
last Saturday, and the steamer on which he
had engaged passage sailed without him.